Zombie Cornsnake (Seriously vamped out corn)

WTH have you done to your poor snake? Well, assuming this is true because it just sounds so off the wall, I will go ahead and type out what I think.

First, don't put her under a lamp.. it's too hot.. corns only need under the belly heat to digest and only up to 85 F at the hottest. The lamp might of been too hot and she overheated. If your room wasn't below 70 then the lamp wasn't necessary. She will be just fine with an under the tank heating pad she can lay over when she needs to digest. Just don't let the pad get over 85 F. It will burn the crap out of her.

I'm at a loss as to why you are "popping" her if you thought she was dead.. You popped her too hard and injured her.

Next, not a good idea to pick her up and toss her around like that.. and lying her on her back.

If she does that again, please take her to a vet that knows about herps.

Shiari said it better than I could have. Perhaps it's time to look around for a new home for your snake, or do some research on con snake care and temperature regulation.

[quote=Shiari;1319787]
THESE are the problems we have.[/QUOTE

i wish i knew how o multi quote or i would have had a better answer not as good as yours lol
thank you for doing it that way!

Originally Posted by neiman07

i wish i knew how o multi quote or i would have had a better answer not as good as yours lol
thank you for doing it that way!

What I did was type quote and /quote in the square brackets around the sections of text I wanted to put as quotes.

Originally Posted by neiman07

IM thinking you scared her so bad with the mouse while trying to get her to eat that she fainted, or that maybe she was to warm/cold!
thats what it sounds like i COULD be wrong but that's what i would think, then you proceed to flip her on her back and toss her back and forth! thats not right i dont think that needed to be done at all, if that ever happens again i think you need to put her back in her viv and see what happens give her time...

what have you done with your mouse to try to get her to eat, besides the zombie dance?!

I thought shed was dead!!! I flipped her to check, i read if reptiles stay on there backs it means there sick or dead and i tried to see if she was breathing.

I cut the mouse in half, brained it and dipped it in chicken broth.

OPPS i messed it up.. today is not my day i swear!! SORRY guys

also your getting more baby corns maybe you should start with an older snake so you can learn everything you can babys can be a little temperamental i think especially if your new to snakes! just my 2 cents!

Originally Posted by ceduke

Shiari said it better than I could have. Perhaps it's time to look around for a new home for your snake, or do some research on con snake care and temperature regulation.

Hey come pick her up then (very useless post)

sooo your not wanting her now?! what kind of corn is she!

Can you take a photo of her and post it? I would like to see her. I am concerned about her.

Originally Posted by Shiari

This suggests that your temperatures are too high.



So, temps are too hot, you've got the AC on so you claim temps are now too low (my corns eat outside their bins/tanks at my room temperature even in winter... which is 65 degrees and I doubt that's how cold your house is) And then you stick a lamp close to her that is going to get massively too hot. Temperature shock.



Also known as a fairly sure-fire method to make a hatchling NOT want to eat because you have turned yourself AND the mouse into scary monsters.



It can take a while to confirm a snake is dead. Tossing a snake around is liable to damage it. Popping 'hard' doesn't give you experience popping. You need to learn the correct pressure so you start light and then go more firm until you find the right strength to use. You still don't know how to pop now as applying too much pressure can result in the hemipenes not appearing as you're basically crushing them.



No you can't. You're not a vet and you didn't wait long enough and you probably had her so overheated she was in shock.



You have injured your snake due to careless actions. Your temps are likely not correct, your methods of 'encouraging' her to feed are only going to further your snake's lack of desire to eat, and now you have damaged her only route for the elimination of bodily waste products.

THESE are the problems we have.

So are you telling me that snakes can have heat strokes? I was not grabbing her and forcing it down her throat i was simply put it in her face trying to get her to eat it. She was dead i tell you, not breathing or anything!

My temps are correct, i even have a thermostat.